Neil le phoque, vedette des réseaux sociaux
Nahila Bendali nous raconte ses aventures. Âgé de cinq ans, Neil le phoque revient chaque année dans un petit village de Tasmanie, en Australie. Il écrase des clôtures, bloque la circulation et percute des voitures garées, mais les gens l’adorent!
It was once anyone's right to touch the water in that pool.
Photo from 1963 March on Washington.
Demonstrators sit with their feet resting in the Reflecting Pool.
From Library of Congress photo collection.
"a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history"
The govt has or may provide $8.9 billion+ to 14 companies tied to Trump family or Cantor Fitzgerald (Lutnick) working on critical mining deals
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/europe/trump-lutnick-sons-kazakhstan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uVA.Ab6Y.5H6Ao6OwshPC&smid=url-share
Vancouver’s Granville Street pedestrian transformation has reached legendary status as a people-place, & the #WorldCup’s only half over. We need this to be a true turning-point, fuelling “a more decisive kind of leadership & boldness…standing on the shoulders of smarter cities. Time to get it done.”
Opinion: Time to change Granvi...
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In Yorkshire, the croppers (highly skilled workers who trimmed the nap from fabric to produce smooth, finished cloth) faced mass unemployment due to the introduction of cropping machines by #EnochTaylor of Marsden.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
#Luddite
#EnochsHammer
Luddite - Wikipedia
Europe heatwave swamps hospitals, halts parties • FRANCE 24 English
"Jim Cédric Hansen, Vice-President of the International Commission on Disaster Medicine in Rouen, explains why the human body struggles to cope with such extreme temperatures and why older people are particularly vulnerable, with prolonged exposure to intense heat potentially proving fatal."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAIkUZYlJnU #ClimateChange #Healthcare #Disability #Aging #France
🚨 Beyond the limit 🚨
New ESO study finds that current proposals to launch 1.7+ million satellites into orbit would have devastating consequences for astronomy.
The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital
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📷 F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #environment #pollution
Reflect Orbital aims to launch 50,000 mirror-like satellites to provide sunlight at night, with reflected beams spanning at least 5 km on Earth's surface.
This image illustrates how scattered sunlight would increase the overall brightness of the sky above the VLT, even if the mirrors aren’t aiming directly at the observatory.
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📷 ESO/O. Hainaut
RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/116844620404236120
Ok well maybe my hideous SpaceX million sat simulations *aren't* wrong. I just couldn't believe it was that bad. But yeah, this is pretty much what I get too.
@fesshole When he was living in Austin, Texas with Patty Griffin there was a story in a local newspaper about a guy who had Led Zeppelin blaring loudly from his car with the windows down. At a stoplight, he looked out his driver’s side window and saw Robert Plant in the car stopped next to him smiling and nodding his head in time with the music.
Delighted to see Daisy Dixon’s new book, Depraved, is the Guardian’s Book of the Day — it’s a great read, accessible but deliberately unflinching in tackling problematic art and artists from a philosophical and aesthetic position www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Depraved by Daisy Dixon review...
1028 died in Spain, in one month, due to capitalist-created #canicule hitting Europe this summer.
Europe has 50 countries. 27 of those countries are in the European Union.
let’s use Spain as a baseline and low-ball the number down to 1000. that means that anywhere between 27 to 50,000 europeans might have been killed IN ONE MONTH by the #petromafia #climateCrisis
❝ Las muertes por calor se disparan a más de mil en un junio que cierra en cotas históricas https://www.ideal.es/sociedad/calor-dispara-muertes-calor-mil-junio-cierra-20260701123157-ntrc.html
Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche have pushed hard for new death sentences, including in states that have abolished executions. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/01/trump-federal-death-penalty-prosecutions-blanche-bondi
🇨🇦🇪🇺 “Canada to join Eurovision song contest from 2027” https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/01/canada-joins-eurovision-song-contest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15941367/Spy-chiefs-revolt-Trump-demand-master-list-secret-agent-fearing-one-catastrophic-risk.htmlhttps://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15941367/Spy-chiefs-revolt-Trump-demand-master-list-secret-agent-fearing-one-catastrophic-risk.html
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15941367/Spy-chiefs-revolt-Trump-demand-master-list-secret-agent-fearing-one-catastrophic-risk.html?ico=authors_pagination_desktop
India’s Bengal drops eggs from school lunches: Why that’s stoking debate
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/1/indias-bengal-drops-eggs-from-school-lunches-why-thats-stoking-debate?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia News @asia-news-AlJazeera
As the #Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a #US strike killing over 100 Iranian #children
A US missile killed Iranian schoolchildren four months ago. We still don’t know the full story
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Iran #war #Trump #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
https://apnews.com/article/iran-school-strike-baluch-trump-2a134a5c74d80db763db4c3eb6d0d847
Bans on #transgender athletes hurt us all.
In the cover story to our May/June 2026 issue, Jessica Luther explains why we must rethink #gender in sports altogether, based on four important books: https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/
Mark Carney calls carbon emissions targets a ‘not sustainable’ threat to national unity
> downgrading the country’s climate-change ambitions is necessary for *global stability*
Is this satire?
How will wrecking the #climate, causing mass migration, heat, drought, hurricanes, sea-level rise, … promote “global stability”?
Happy Canada Day!
The Indigenous flag was designed by artist Curtis Wilson (d 2019).
The renowned artist was born and raised in the Ligwilda’xw territories and he was a member of the Wei Wai Kum First Nation in Campbell River.
""Every day is a learning experience we must do our best to pass on the knowledge to our future generations." ~ Curtis Wilson